Weekly Release Notes Recap
Here’s a quick recap of the latest release notes updates from the past one week.
Databricks platform release notes
February 21 - 28, 2023
Ray on Databricks (Public Preview)
With Databricks Runtime 12.0 and above, you can create a Ray cluster and run Ray applications in Databricks with the Ray on Spark API. See Use Ray on Databricks.
Databricks Jobs now supports running continuous jobs
You can ensure there is always an active run of your Databricks job with the new continuous trigger type. See Run a continuous job.
Databricks Terraform provider updated to version 1.10.0
Version 1.10.0 makes updates to databricks_share, various documentation updates, and more. For more details, see the changelog for version 1.10.0.
Legacy global init scripts and cluster-named init scripts are deprecated
Starting February 21, 2023, legacy global init scripts and cluster-named init scripts are deprecated and cannot be used in new workspaces. See Init script types.
Databricks SQL release notes
February 21 - 28, 2023
Version 2023.10: February 13, 2023 - March 6, 2023
- You can now selectively overwrite data matching an arbitrary expression in a Delta table using REPLACE WHERE.
- DELETE and UPDATE now use dynamic file and partition pruning in instances where it improves performance. For example, dynamic pruning is enabled when a smaller source table is used to update or delete rows in a larger table.
- Users can now audit how many rows are deleted when running data manipulation language (DML) operations such as DELETE, TRUNCATE, and replaceWhere with partitioned predicates.
Delta Live Tables release notes
February 21 - 28, 2023
Delta Live Tables release notes are organized by year and week-of-year. Because Delta Live Tables is versionless, both workspace and runtime changes take place automatically. The following release notes provide an overview of changes and bug fixes in each release:
